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Originally Posted by DigaDo /forum/post/18209920
This weekend Encore Westerns is running the complete set of Gene Autry TV shows, 91 episodes, with one Gene Autry movie inserted into the Sunday schedule. I’ve set up the same 3576 and 2160A, this time to record 3:30 hour LP blocks that, with front and end cut interstitial editing and title dividing, should allow seven episodes to fit each DVD. From past experience I’ve found that Gene Autry episodes come in at a little short of 27:00 minutes.
Wajo,
After that Friday post I was gone the rest of the day. When I returned home I became so involved with tax return preparation that I didn't reprogram the 3576 and 2160A to record 3:00 hour program blocks instead of 3:30 hour program blocks.
The 3576 took the first recording block, Gene Autry episodes 1-7 from midnight to 3:30 a.m. (PST). The 2160A took the second recording block, episodes 8-14 from 3:30 a.m. to 7:00 a.m.
Upon arising this morning I turned my first attention to the 3576 that was between its recording blocks. I did front/end cut and title dividing of the first recording block. Then I high-speed dubbed and finalized that TY 8x Premium Line DVD-R that had the first seven Autry episodes and one short interstitial thrown in. These are the LP timings, 27:30, 27:33, 27:41, 27:36, 27:34, 27:27, 1:36 (the interstitial), 26:33, with the empty title shown as 6:14.
Then I turned my attention to the 2160A that was still recording its first block. I found that
I forgot to throw the RF A/B switch from the TCM feed to the Encore Westerns feed. I missed recording Autry episodes 8-13. The 2160A had recorded the conclusion of The Reivers (1969), then Tom Sawyer (1973) and the first portion of Dick Tracy (1990). I threw the A/B switch to the Encore Westerns feed in time to record Autry episode 14. (Dick Tracy was scheduled and being recorded on a Panasonic on the same feed so throwing the A/B switch cut Autry into the Dick Tracy recording.)
As I type this post the 3576 is recording the third Autry recording block, episodes 15-21, and the 2160A is now between its recording blocks.
Ah, more geezer moments.